The Bachelor’s Grant Ellis Will get Engaged in Season 29 Finale

It weighed closely on his coronary heart, however Grant Ellis picked a closing rose recipient on The Bachelor!

Grant, 31, proposed to Juliana Pasquarosa within the March 24 finale — and he or she stated “sure!” Earlier than getting down on one knee, Juliana, 28, shared with Grant that he made her really feel “deserving of the kind of love you have given me.” He later known as it “the happiest day of my life.”

“Juliana, since our first night time enjoying the piano and attending to know you, we have all the time had a connection,” he stated. “By means of this entire journey, you have been anyone who has impressed me and stored me laughing together with your contagious smile, as a result of we perceive what we have been by means of, and we perceive what it means to persevere.”

“I really consider that you just’re anyone who’s my finest buddy, and I am so grateful for our journey, and if you’re going by means of the hardest instances in your life, I need you to know that you do not have to undergo it alone, that I will be there for you, as your man, as your buddy, as your associate,” he stated earlier than asking, “Will you marry me?”

Teary-eyed, Juliana accepted the proposal, exclaiming, “Sure. Completely, child!”

“Our connection is so robust, and we will help one another by means of the great, the unhealthy and all the pieces in between,” Grant informed his wife-to-be.

“All the things. All of the issues,” she replied.

Previous to the proposal, the day dealer had narrowed it all the way down to Juliana and Litia Garr following Fantasy Suites, eliminating Zoe McGrady after spending an evening with every lady. He stated “I like you” to Litia, 31, throughout Fantasy Suites, after which shared the identical sentiment with Juliana through the March 24 episode, which additionally featured Juliana and Litia assembly Grant’s household.

Earlier within the season, Grant met Juliana and Litia’s households. Juliana’s dad gave Grant his stamp of approval, telling the shopper service affiliate that he “cherished” the previous basketball professional.

“I actually like him rather a lot,” Juliana informed her sister Dominique throughout hometowns. “I feel that I do know, for some cause, it’s like I do know he’s my man.”

Throughout Fantasy Suites, Juliana expressed that she nervous about not being the one lady left within the race for Grant’s coronary heart.

“I begin to spiral as a result of I additionally know that there’s different women right here that he’s additionally forming connections with and the truth that it couldn’t be me jogs my memory of my previous relationship,” she stated.

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However Grant provided her reassurance. “I’m falling for you, and this entire week is clearly onerous, however I’m going to let , I take into consideration you a large number,” he informed Juliana.

Grant and Juliana spent the night time collectively, and he or she known as it a “12 out of 10 expertise.”

“It was precisely what we would have liked,” she added.

Grant, who appeared on Jenn Tran’s season of The Bachelorette, stated on the March 6 episode of The Viall Recordsdata podcast that whereas he didn’t decide to not having intercourse within the Fantasy Suites, he determined he wouldn’t “interact” in intercourse until he already had readability on which lady he wished to suggest to afterward.

“At that time, I did not know who was my individual,” Grant admitted, including that he “did not say I didn’t do different issues!”

Earlier than his journey started, Grant informed PEOPLE that holding again within the Fantasy Suites helped him keep centered on the massive resolution that awaited him on finale day.

“My tackle Fantasy Suites was to take issues sluggish and never rush, as a result of I feel plenty of instances if you provoke the bodily half, it may trigger you to make actually unhealthy selections,” he stated. “So my strategy to that [was] to attend, and to see what my connections had been like earlier than I interact in something that will be thought-about bodily, and that actually helped me to make good selections at that time.”

The truth star additionally shared that he felt “very pleased with the ending” of his season.

“Issues ended the way in which they had been supposed to finish, and I am pleased with it,” Grant stated. “I am pleased with selections I made, and I do not remorse something.”

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The Bachelor season 29 finale is airing Monday, March 24, on ABC from 8-11 p.m. ET.